Today, I'm introducing a new series: 'Scenes That Pop,' where Everybody Taste highlights moments in cinema where pop music and film seemingly converge into one perfect art form.
Anthony: "Dignan, you know what's going to happen if you go back there."
Dignan: "No, I don't. They'll never catch me, man… because I'm fucking innocent."
The penultimate scene in Wes Anderson's 1996 debut film Bottle Rocket is soundtracked by "2000 Man," a track taken from The Rolling Stones' divisive 1967 psychedelic outing, Their Satanic Majesties Request. As the Stones only self-produced record, critics often dismiss the LP's experimental leanings as drug-fueled self-indulgence. However, if you stick The Rolling Stones in a studio for 8 months—especially a young almost in their prime version—the band will inevitably churn out a few memorable and perhaps even classic songs. "She's A Rainbow" was one. And "2000 Man" was another. With its off-kilter backbone of drumming, acoustic picked verse, and incredible organ-blasted shifts in mood and tempo, "2000 Man" is as unpredictable a track as it is a wildly creative and exciting one. In other words, it's the perfect fit for Dignan's (played by Owen Wilson) haphazard, erratic, and inevitably doomed attempt at post-robbery escape.
